ms. lewis, when those videos of acorn workers who were helping what they thought were a pimp and a prostitute first came out, you said the following, and let's put it up. we are their willie horton for 2009. we are the boogie man for the right wing and its echo chamber. now the vast majority of democrats in the house and senate have voted to cut funding for acorn. can you still say this is just about race and politics? >> well, we are the largest community organization of low and moderate income folks and mostly people of color and, of course, any organization is not entirely perfect. i think congress, you know, will be looking at doing an anti-acorn amendment and just singling out one organization, but we continue to make sure that all of our employees, if they're too stupid to understand that they are not reaching professional standards, we terminate them and we actually make sure that, you know, what we do internally is serving our constituents, 500,000 poor black and brown, asian and white

as you heard, ms. lewis was interviewed on fox news sunday, and she vowed to hold the troubled organization to a higher standard. critics accused acorn of a variety of things, including mixing taxpayer money for a variety of purposes. on capitol hill, now, there are calls for hearings and for acorn to open its books, but when pressed in an interview, ms. lewis refused to say whether she is willing to make acorn's finances public. >> are you willing to open your books up? >> i am willing to do the work that i need to do, every single day. not be distracted. make sure that things that we do well we beef up, and things that we do not do so well, that we change and we reform. >> now, there is a call for the fbi to investigate. that from the ranking member of the house judiciary committee. congress -- congressman smith told me of a widespread investigation of acorn is needed. >> we are spending $53 million of the taxpayers' money in the last five years on this organization. it just smells. that is why we need to

fox news first broke the story acorn said it was false and defamatory r after the public furor, ms. lewisent so far as to thank the filmmakers saying they performed, quote, a good service. meanwhile, she has also promised acorn would announce the appointment of an independent auditor today. so far, that has not happened. bret: eric, thank you. speaking of bad publicity, our next story is about how politicians from both sides of the aisle seek to overcome t james rosen reports on the latest public rehabilitation of a political pariah and some who have paved the way. >> into f. scott gerald's famous lament that there are no second acts in american lives, no one offers a sharper retort than g. gordon liddy, the convicted watergate conspirator who became a best selling author, radio host and t.v. pitch man. >> i asked the white house if i could bring a few more guests. >> now mark foley hopes to emulate libby's success. three years after he resigned after disclosures that he was sending text messages to male pages on capitol hill, foley on poll politics debuts in north palm beach. >> democrat

and the fact that, you know, ms. lewisgo to a congressional jeff sight meeting. there needs to be accountability and transparency from this organization if they're receiving money. >> you filibuster. when you guys -- did you call for investigative hearings of halliburton that got $60 billion? >> now you're going off the top of -- are did you investigate halliburton? no. it's wonderful for you guys to -- >> it all goes back to the bush white house. >> i'm sorry. >> that's not the point. we're talking about acorn. we're here talking about what we saw this past week the chain of events that happened in the past week. sean: didn't you find those tapes despicable? >> i thought they were terrible but you'll find that in any organization of thousands of people. sean: you won't find organizations where people go in offices and you support the idea of importing young, underaged girls for prostitution. >> you're just saying that and left the impression with your audience acorn supports importation. sean: the people that works for th

she raised that question, moments ago, ms. lewis and it's a good question. why is he not releasing the unedited versions? he talked to fox news, but why isn't he talking to me? again, the invitation stands. >>> meanwhile a story we first reported to you is now continuing to get traction around the country on blogs, on social media and on the air. on the heels of jimmy carter's statement about racism, a man allegedly beat up a woman who was with her daughter at the time. here's what the woman told me exclusively last night on the campbell brown show. >> my daughter had to stand by and witness the entire thing and she was afraid, she had mentioned to me and had cried about the fact that she was trying to protect mommy by pushing the door and the man pushed the door back and squished her. >> there are developments on this story so tasha keil is going to be joining us in a moment, she's going to be joining me on the set right here, and i thank you for her courage. we'll be right back. $1 a perso. one breakfast a week saves a family of four over $800 a year. save

ms. lewis you said the following and let's put it on. we are their willie horton for 2009. we are the boogie man for the right wing and its echo chamber. now, the vast majority of the democrats in the house and senate have voted to cut funding for acorn. can you still say this is about race and politics? >> we are the largest community organization of low and moderate income folks and mostly people of color. and, of course, any organization is not entirely perfect. i think congress, you know, will be looking at doing an antiacorn amendment and just singling out one organization. but we continue to make sure that all of our employees if they are too stupid to understand that they are not reaching professional standards we terminate them and we actually make sure that, you know, what we do internally is serving our constituents, 500,000 poor, black and brown, asian and white people in this country. so, i was outraged by it, everyone should be. and i can understand how the congress was also. >> well, congressman issa, it is not just the videos. in july, the republican staff, y

i would like ms. lewis to tell me why the people of the united states, black and brown, need help.why can't they take care of their own business? this organization is not necessary. that is my opinion, thank you very much. guest: i thank you for that opinion and i would ask the same question. in the greatest country in the world, why there are folks that are living in crushing poverty, shut out from the system. you know, god bless you, 82 years old. my grandmother did not live as long as you and i hope that you state in very good health and that you have -- that you stay in very good health and that you have good health care. my parents worked, as you did, for years. had eight children and put kids through college. we never got any help of any kind. my mother worked two jobs and so did my father. so, i understand the work ethic and being upright and honest. but there are people in this country, and they are not just black and brown folks. there are so many low and moderate income agents, white people that really need help. across the country we are seeing the economic crisis affect

we are going to examine it in a fair and balanced way with ms. lewisr: chris, could you explain to us if acorn is to truly be de-funded by the federal government it will take the signature of the president to do that, correct? >> well, i suppose that they couldn't -- they have the power of the purse string so if they decide not to -- you know, hadn't thought about it but if they decide not to pass a bill to fund it, i don't think he can keep it even if he doesn't sign that bill. if they don't pass funding for acorn, then they can't spend money on acorn. >> hey, chris. >> let me just make one point though, that is not like that's going to put acorn out of business. i had a talk with. >> that's a great point. >> she says that acorn only gets about $2 million a year from the federal government. their budget is 20 million. taxpayer dollars is what we are most concerned about. that doesn't mean acorn can't continue to do business. >> exactly. >> hey, do you think the president, chris, because have you got this tremendous sixth sense, maybe even eighths or 7

i would like ms. lewis to tell me why the people of the united states, black and brown, need help.hy can't they take care of their own business? this organization is not necessary. that is my opinion, thank you very much. guest: i thank you for that opinion and i would ask the same question. in the greatest country in the world, why there are folks that are living in crushing poverty, shut out from the system. you know, god bless you, 82 years old. my grandmother did not live as long as you and i hope that you state in very good health and that you have -- that you stay in very good health and that you have good health care. my parents worked, as you did, for years. had eight children and put kids through college. we never got any help of any kind. my mother worked two jobs and so did my father. so, i understand the work ethic and being upright and honest. but there are people in this country, and they are not just black and brown folks. there are so many low and moderate income agents, white people that really need help. across the country we are seeing the economic crisis affect

lewis has the details. >> reporter: police say the search of the garrido property is intense and very meticulous, and they found at least three frag ms of bone so far. >> we did locate another bone on the exterior of the garrido property, and it's too early to even begin to guess what kind of bone that might be, human or animal. >> reporter: it will take laboratory analysis to figure that out and whether the bones are recent or something left over from nearby native american burial grounds. phillip and nancy garrido have pled not guilty to all the criminal charges in the dugard kidnap case. now police want to know if they might have been involved in other unsolved northern california kidnappings from two decades ago. a car taken from the garrido property matches eyewitness descriptions of the week or vehicles used in those other kidnappin kidnappings. investigators have been using high-tech ground. penetrating radar and dogs trained to sniff for human bodies. both the dogs and the equipment have indicate there may be something out of ordinary in the back yard. >> we're not going to say exactly where it was because we don't want every

lewis says the employees involved have since been a.c.o.r.'s attorneys says that those two workers have been fired here now is ms.the situation room." >> i have been with a.c.o.r.n. for 20 years, i am going to make sure that we serve low income people of color. i am cleaning house. i'll come back in three months and you can look at what we have done. >> the series of undercover videos slamming a.c.o.r.n. has raised a lot of questions, namely who's producing them and why. here now is cnn national political correspondent jessica yellin. >> reporter: these are the hidden camera videos that triggered a firestorm over grass roots activist group a.c.o.r.n., hanna jils seen here posing as a prostitute and james o'keefe pretended to be her pimp. according to her web biography, she's appeared on fox news. >> as i sat there, i was like i cannot believe they're actually falling for this and not necessarily falling for it, but what can we get them to say next? >> o'keefe says she's a filmmaker dedicated to uncovering corruption he feels the main stream media ignores. here he is in his pimp outfit. >> the two have gotten resu